| PLEATS | Features of a skirt in pastel variety (6) |
| BUSTLE | Garment used for exaggerating the silhouette of the back of a skirt in a fashion that followed what Punch nicknamed "crinolinemania" (6) |
| PETALS | They're flowery and of a pastel variety |
| PLATES | Pastel variety found on cars (6) |
| PLEAT | Feature of a skirt or pants |
| SLIT | Feature of a skirt, maybe |
| CLEOME | 'Spider flower' genus of tall graceful annuals in pastel colours (6) |
| SARONG | Brightly coloured skirt in the South Pacific (6) |
| GUSSET | Piece of material for reinforcing some skirts in the wind (6) |
| RAKISH | Dashing, hurried to collect skirts in Kigali (6) |
| REPAIR | Darn pants or trousers, say, after skirts in rage (6) |
| ABRUPT | Short skirts in August? Bachelor extremely excited to be introduced (6) |
| GEMINI | Hold up an example of a skirt for the twins (6) |
| HEM | Alter a skirt, in a way |
| HEMS | Lifts up a skirt, in a way |
| LAP | A single turn of rope or thread around a drum, reel or other coiled object; a circuit of a racetrack; the forepart of a skirt and/or the body, from waist to knees; thin liquid food for a dog; an earlo |
| NASMYTH | Artist and engineer best-known for his invention of the steam hammer whose self-portrait in pastel is held by the National Galleries of Scotland (7) |
| AQUILEGIA | Also known as granny's bonnet, a self-seeding, clump-forming flower with blooms in pastel shades of pink, lavender, peach, lemon, mauve or cream (9) |
| SPECULATE | Invest in European copper in pastel form (9) |
| ABUDHABI | A friend acquires trimmed skirt in the city (3,5) |
